The COVID-19 pandemic has placedfinancial strainon institutions of high education , and historically bleak colleges and university have been slay specially hard . For decade , HBCUs have been underfunded due tosystemicracism andinequityin public financing . As theAssociated Pressreports , a new grant aim to give HBCUs a boost at a metre when it ’s painfully needed .
The National Trust ’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will award more than $ 650,000 in subsidisation money to eight U.S. school institute to chiefly civilise Black bookman . Those institution include Benedict College in Columbia , South Carolina ; Jackson State University in Jackson , Mississippi ; Lane College in Jackson , Tennessee ; Morgan State University in Baltimore , Maryland ; Philander Smith College in Little Rock , Arkansas ; Spelman College in Atlanta , Georgia ; Stillman College in Tuscaloosa , Alabama ; and Tuskegee University in Tuskegee , Alabama .
The Duncan Grant money will be used to keep the forcible building that make up these campuses . eld of underfunding have led to many structures fall into disrepair . At Benedict College , leaky window have ensue in a “ host of morphologic problems " at Duckett Hall , president and CEO Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis tells AP . The college project to expend the grant to restore the nearly 100 - year - old building .
These restoration labor will also be learning opportunities for students at the colleges . As part of their preservation efforts , each HBCU will recruit one student to help execute the plans . Brent Leggs , the National Trust ’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund ’s executive director , told AP that this will help oneself “ cultivate the next coevals of disgraceful professionals in historic preservation . "
The $ 650,000 grant for HBCUs is just one example of the National Trust supporting the Black community . The backing is part of a larger $ 25 million movement from the organization to preserve Black culture and chronicle launched in 2017 .
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